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US stock market news — Friday, August 21, 2026

48 stories · by lane · newest first · Eastern Time

The stories BORSA published on Friday, August 21, 2026, grouped by lane, with the time, the sentiment read and the impact score of each.

Macro 22 Corporate 17 Geopolitics 3 Product 2 Analyst action 1 Earnings 1 Energy 1 Legal 1

Macro

22 stories

Macro10:56 PM ET

India’s informal sector shrinks in June quarter; businesses fall 5.4%, employment drops 9.7%bearish 40 · impact 20

Macro10:09 PM ET

Moody's lifts Ireland to Aa2, Citing Continued Economic, Fiscal Gainsneutral 50 · impact 30

Macro9:05 PM ET

Trump: military is 'ultimate intervention' for bond marketsbearish 30 · impact 60

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Macro6:04 PM ET

Global fund manager sentiment gauge rises to 8.0, third-highest since 2022 – BofA

bullish 65 · impact 30

Macro4:57 PM ET

U.S. electricians union leader calls for more data centers, citing 'generational' opportunity for blue-collar workersbullish 60 · impact 20

Macro4:54 PM ET

Trump: Bessent acted alone on Treasury buyback planbearish 35 · impact 40

Macro3:50 PM ET

MOC imbalance: S&P 500 $163M buy, Nasdaq 100 $38M sell, Dow $101M buyneutral 50 · impact 20

Macro1:42 PM ET

Foreign holdings of US Treasuries fall $72B in June to $9.30T, lowest since Januarybearish 35 · impact 60

Macro12:56 PM ET

New York Fed lifts Q3 GDP growth forecast to 2.3%bullish 65 · impact 30

Macro11:00 AM ET

SNB's Tschudin: central bank would cut rates below zero if neededneutral 50 · impact 40

Macro9:45 AM ET

US services PMI flash rises to 56.8 in August, beating forecastsbullish 70 · impact 40

Macro9:45 AM ET

US S&P Global composite PMI August actual 56.0 vs 54.5 prior, est 54.0bullish 65 · impact 10

Macro9:45 AM ET

US composite PMI jumps to 56 in August, fastest growth since April 2022bullish 70 · impact 70

Macro9:45 AM ET

US S&P Global Manufacturing PMI slips to 53.2 in August, below forecastsbearish 35 · impact 40

Macro7:37 AM ET

New York tops San Francisco in tech worker count for first time in 13 years, CBRE saysneutral 50 · impact 30

Macro7:27 AM ET

TD sees possible market relief from Warsh at Jackson Holebullish 65 · impact 30

Macro7:07 AM ET

Colombia's coffee harvest expected to reach about 12.5 million 60-kg bags by 2026neutral 50 · impact 40

Macro7:07 AM ET

Colombia coffee exports from Buenaventura returning to normal after earthquakeneutral 50 · impact 20

Macro5:35 AM ET

Deadline looms as Trump's 50% tariffs set to kick in just after midnightbearish 20 · impact 80

Macro4:30 AM ET

UK Services PMI Flash beats forecast in Augustbullish 65 · impact 40

Macro4:00 AM ET

Eurozone Manufacturing PMI flash rises to 52.8 in August, above forecastbullish 65 · impact 40

Macro1:00 AM ET

India August services flash PMI beats forecast at 54.5neutral 50 · impact 20

Corporate

17 stories

Corporate9:37 PM ET

Evergrande collapse engulfs sports empire built on its fortunesneutral 50 · impact 20

Corporate7:11 PM ET

Nvidia price increases to take effect on systems shipped early next year, affecting Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell chipsbullish 70 · impact 60

Corporate3:25 PM ET

OpenAI sales executive Kaylin Voss resignsbearish 40 · impact 20

Corporate2:57 PM ET

Ro Khanna bought Moderna stock in June; shares surged in August on trial resultsneutral 50 · impact 20

Corporate2:29 PM ET

Moody's affirms Microsoft's AAA rating, outlook stableneutral 50 · impact 20

Corporate1:05 PM ET

Wall Street helping Nvidia customers buy more chipsbullish 60 · impact 20

Corporate12:17 PM ET

Walmart plans to use tariff refunds to lower product costs, CFO saysneutral 50 · impact 40

Corporate12:12 PM ET

Blackwater founder Erik Prince launches air-defense startup for data centers, energy infrastructure, military basesneutral 50 · impact 40

Corporate11:39 AM ET

AT&T using open source models to reduce Anthropic costsbullish 65 · impact 30

Corporate11:27 AM ET

Harvey launches legal AI model built on Kimi K3neutral 50 · impact 30

Corporate11:20 AM ET

Tesla gets Nevada permit for Autonomous Vehicle Network Company, enabling paid Robotaxi service in Las Vegasbullish 80 · impact 60

Corporate11:11 AM ET

Starbucks to lay off 224 corporate employees at Seattle HQ, including 120 IT workers who declined relocation to Nashvillebearish 35 · impact 30

Corporate9:31 AM ET

Cloverleaf Infrastructure partners with Nvidia to deploy DSX platform at AI sitesbullish 60 · impact 20

Corporate9:21 AM ET

Walmart ends resistance, adds tap-to-pay including Apple Pay by year-endbullish 65 · impact 40

Corporate6:19 AM ET

Tesla recalls nearly 3 million vehicles in China, largest-ever recall in the marketbearish 30 · impact 60

Corporate5:39 AM ET

Succession speculation builds around Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's daughter Madison Huangbearish 40 · impact 10

Corporate3:59 AM ET

MicroStrategy back in green on Bitcoin with $875 million unrealized profitbullish 65 · impact 30

Geopolitics

3 stories

Geopolitics10:01 PM ET

US and El Salvador Plan Economic Summit to Deepen Tiesneutral 50 · impact 20

Geopolitics8:34 PM ET

U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon transits Taiwan Strait in international airspacebearish 35 · impact 30

Geopolitics12:28 PM ET

Oman and Iran discuss restarting Hormuz navigation talksbullish 70 · impact 60

Product

2 stories

Product5:42 PM ET

X launches Ads MCP, letting AI agents create and manage ad campaigns via conversationneutral 50 · impact 30

Product7:45 AM ET

DeepSeek releases multimodal V4 Flash model,: near-Anthropic Opus 4.8 performanceneutral 50 · impact 20

Analyst action

1 story

Analyst action3:45 AM ET

HSBC lifts Nvidia target price to $360 from $325bullish 65 · impact 30

Earnings

1 story

Earnings6:50 AM ET

BJ's Wholesale Club Q2 earnings beat estimates, lifts FY26 adjusted EPS guidancebullish 85 · impact 60

Energy

1 story

Energy9:04 AM ET

Saudi Aramco asks LPG buyers to load inside Persian Gulf for first time since port damagebearish 35 · impact 40

Legal

1 story

Legal12:46 PM ET

Oura faces class-action lawsuit over sleep-stage accuracy claimsneutral 50 · impact 20

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